Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
- Dir. John Badham
Feat. John Travolta - John Travolta's instant star–quality invests this chronicle of the disco era with an infectious bravado. Great soundtrack, classic dance moves…
Summer City (1977)- Dir. Christopher Fraser
Feat. Mel Gibson, Steve Bisley, John Jarratt - The exploits of four boys who leave Sydney and head out for a weekend of surfing and adventure. Unfortunately the fun takes a serious turn when they…
Brute, The (1976)- Dir. Gerry O'Hara
Feat. Sarah Douglas, Julian Glover, Bruce Robinson - A strange combination of social realism and luridity turns this tale of a battered wife into a strange horror film indeed.
Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The (1976)- Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. Ben Gazzara - Cassavetes' most personal film concerns a strip–club owner (Ben Gazzara) who becomes indebted to the mob. An acquired taste for this one as…
Mikey and Nicky (1976)- Dir. Elaine May
Feat. Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Ned Beatty… - Loosely improvised drama, with a wild–eyed John Cassavetes calling on old pal Peter Falk to help escape the Mob. Turns out he may not be such a…
Overlord (1975)
- Dir. Stuart Cooper
Feat. Brian Stirner - Remarkable one–off that seamlessly interweaves archival war footage and a fictional narrative, this accounts a twenty–year–old’s…
Night Porter, The (1974)- Dir. Liliana Cavani
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling - Bizarre yet sensual melodrama about an ex–gestapo officer who resumes a sado–masochistic affair with his Jewish former–prisoner.…
Steppenwolf (1974)- Feat. Max von Sydow, Dominique Sanda, Pierre Clementi
- A strange yet spiritually faithful adaptation of Hermann Hesse's novel about a solitary intellectual in 1920's Germany who is a half–human,…
Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972)- Dir. Peter Medak
Feat. Alan Bates, Janet Suzman - Rewarding black comedy stars Alan Bates and Janet Suzman as a couple with an autistic child whom they consider mercy–killing. Bizarre yet…
Harder They Come, The (1972)- Dir. Perry Henzell
Feat. Jimmy Cliff, Carl Bradshaw - A classic that has found lasting significance as a music film, political film, and above all as a unique, authentic product of Jamaica. A young,…
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